What might an expanded parliament map look like?
A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded.
We've already been able to get...
Podcast #159 – The Labor factions
Ben was joined this week by Osmond Chiu, Per Capita research fellow and contributor editor for the Labor Left magazine Challenge, to discuss the factions...
How would the One Nation surge translate into seats?
There has been a clear trend in recent federal polling - One Nation has been gaining ground, seemingly at the expense of the Coalition....
Victoria moves towards abolishing GVT
The Electoral Matters Committee of the Victorian Parliament yesterday brought down the final report for their inquiry into Victoria's upper house electoral system.
The report...
Podcast #158 – The 2025 Australian Election Study
Ben was joined by Sarah Cameron from Griffith University, to discuss the results of the 2025 Australian Election Study, including Peter Dutton's unpopularity, foreign...
Hinchinbrook by-election live
9:39 - With all the results for ordinary election day booths reported, I've put together a map showing the two-candidate-preferred results and swings by...
Podcast #157 – The Liberal factions
Ben was joined by Michael Evangelidis from GovConnex to discuss the factions of the Liberal Party of Australia - how fluid they are, how...
Podcast #156: History of a bigger parliament
Ben was joined by Frank Bongiorno and Chris Monnox to discuss the history of Australia's federal parliament being expanded, in 1949 and 1984. We...
How the Senate has changed since 1975
There has been a great deal of focus this week on the events of the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government, fifty years ago...
The 1948 expansion – what the MPs did next
Today's post is the latest chapter in my series analysing the history of previous parliamentary expansions at a federal level. In my last post,...